George Soros writes Op-EDdfor todays WSJ - "Why I support reform Prosecutors"

You should read it.

He does not equivocate. He wants gun control and less police presence and incarceration.

"...I have supported the election (and more recently the re-election) of prosecutors who support reform. I have done so transparently, and I have no intention of stopping."

Know your enemy.

Know? Hell make a lamp shade out of (((him}}}

Pure Satan!

Another socialist that made all his money as a Capitalist and now wants to destroy the free market.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/wh...-rate-justice-police-funding-11659277441

Originally Posted by Aviator

Pure Satan!

Yes

Read that this morning. Jorge’s idea has merit.

His passing won’t change a thing with his Foundation and its direction. His infamy will live on far beyond the grave and for generations.

Originally Posted by Houston_2

Read that this morning. Jorge’s idea has merit.

His passing won’t change a thing with his Foundation and its direction. His infamy will live on far beyond the grave and for generations.

His son is worse than Georgeyboy. Guess who runs that foundation you are so afraid of. Look it up.

Forever a long Time General..
The Road is Long ..
With many a Winding Turns ..

Roll Them or They Roll You

Originally Posted by George Soros, Wall Street Journal Opinion, Why I Support Reform Prosecutors
Justice or safety? It’s a false choice. They reinforce each other.

Americans desperately need a more thoughtful discussion about our response to crime. People have had enough of the demagoguery and divisive partisan attacks that dominate the debate and obscure the issues.

Like most of us, I'm concerned about crime. One of government's most important roles is to ensure public safety. I have been involved in efforts to reform the criminal-justice system for the more than 30 years I have been a philanthropist.

Yet our system is rife with injustices that make us all less safe. The idea that we need to choose between justice and safety is false. They reinforce each other: If people trust the justice system, it will work. And if the system works, public safety will improve.

We need to acknowledge that black people in the U.S. are five times as likely to be sent to jail as white people. That is an injustice that undermines our democracy.

We spend $81 billion every year keeping around two million people in prisons and jails. We need to invest more in preventing crime with strategies that work—deploying mental-health professionals in crisis situations, investing in youth job programs, and creating opportunities for education behind bars. This reduces the likelihood that those prisoners will commit new crimes after release.

In recent years, reform-minded prosecutors and other law-enforcement officials around the country have been coalescing around an agenda that promises to be more effective and just. This agenda includes prioritizing the resources of the criminal-justice system to protect people against violent crime. It urges that we treat drug addiction as a disease, not a crime. And it seeks to end the criminalization of poverty and mental illness.

This agenda, aiming at both safety and justice, is based on both common sense and evidence. It’s popular. It’s effective. The goal is not defunding the police but restoring trust between the police and the policed, a partnership that fosters the solving of crimes.

Some politicians and pundits have tried to blame recent spikes in crime on the policies of reform-minded prosecutors. The research I’ve seen says otherwise. The most rigorous academic study, analyzing data across 35 jurisdictions, shows no connection between the election of reform-minded prosecutors and local crime rates. In fact, violent crime in recent years has generally been increasing more quickly in jurisdictions without reform-minded prosecutors. Murder rates have been rising fastest in some Republican states led by tough-on-crime politicians.

Serious scholars researching causes behind the recent increase in crime have pointed to other factors: a disturbing rise in mental illness among young people due to the isolation imposed by Covid lockdowns, a pullback in policing in the wake of public criminal-justice reform protests, and increases in gun trafficking. Many of the same people who call for more-punitive criminal-justice policies also support looser gun laws.

This is why I have supported the election (and more recently the re-election) of prosecutors who support reform. I have done it transparently, and I have no intention of stopping. The funds I provide enable sensible reform-minded candidates to receive a hearing from the public. Judging by the results, the public likes what it’s hearing.

Mr. Soros is founder of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Foundations.

GOP needs to get with it. Low level city/county/state elections can be "bought". Meaning - since most candidates have little name recognition, a good organization locally spreading the word and money spent on advertising can get candidates elected.

Soros identified some time ago that if he can't change to laws, he figured a way to nullify them. All in the name of "racial equality". Real plan is make the streets of cities ungovernable prepping the conditions for radical takeover.

George your Playground San Francisco didn’t work ..

If we only would have Picked our own Cotton..

We’re not getting Baltimore, Chicongo and soon to be NYC Back ..

Everything gets Solved at the End of a Barrel..

Roll Them or They Roll You

I would assert that Soros supports Waukesha parade killer Darrell Brooks. I doubt that Soros has no idea who Darrell is or what he did. Fugg Soros.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/11/accused-waukesha-parade-killer-darrell-brooks-jr-pleads-not-guilty/

Originally Posted by hatari

GOP needs to get with it. Low level city/county/state elections can be "bought". Meaning - since most candidates have little name recognition, a good organization locally spreading the word and money spent on advertising can get candidates elected.

Soros identified some time ago that if he can't change to laws, he figured a way to nullify them. All in the name of "racial equality". Real plan is make the streets of cities ungovernable prepping the conditions for radical takeover.

Our Nation was lost at the local level and mostly due to apathy towards getting out and voting.

Originally Posted by 45_100

Originally Posted by Aviator

Pure Satan!

Yes

Not really, just a standard issue Jew.

His acquiring the means to execute his ethnic prerogatives is the thing that makes him stand out.

Thanks for the c+p, skeen. There is no way in hell I'm paying $4 a month to read this communist's musings in the Wall Street Journal.

"We need to acknowledge that black people in the U.S. are five times as likely to be sent to jail as white people."
Stop and ask yourself why that is, George.

He's ignoring the fact that crime increased so much after he got his "progressive" prosecutors elected in San Francisco & L A County special elections were held to recall them and they were replaced.

Originally Posted by 43Shooter

He's ignoring the fact that crime increased so much after he got his "progressive" prosecutors elected

No he isn't.....

George needs a dirt nap.

Thanks skeen.

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In fact, violent crime in recent years has generally been increasing more quickly in jurisdictions without reform-minded prosecutors. Murder rates have been rising fastest in some Republican states led by tough-on-crime politicians.

Now, which States and do those states (FL? TX? OK?) have large metro areas (Miami? Houston? DFW? Tulsa?) that are driving those "fastest rising" murder rates George? Please, do tell us?

Unfortunately, so many Americans, of both political persuasions have no clue what critical thinking is and take blanket statements as the truth.

I support Soreass for a dirtnap!

He writes that he thinks it's unfair that blacks get incarcerated at 5 times the rate of whites.

Well. I think it's unfair that blacks commit five times as many crimes as whites.

Originally Posted by IndyCA35

He writes that he thinks it's unfair that blacks get incarcerated at 5 times the rate of whites.

Well. I think it's unfair that blacks commit five times as many crimes as whites.

My standard reply to to Libs that give me that first line is "Why is it so difficult to control your impulses and obey the law? Obey the law and you don't go to prison."

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Originally Posted by hatari

Originally Posted by IndyCA35

He writes that he thinks it's unfair that blacks get incarcerated at 5 times the rate of whites.

Well. I think it's unfair that blacks commit five times as many crimes as whites.

My standard reply to to Libs that give me that first line is "Why is it so difficult to control your impulses and obey the law? Obey the law and you don't go to prison."

This one get it:

He needs to live by example, unarmed in the very cities he lobbies in.

Clearly there is much work to be done.

Originally Posted by IndyCA35

He writes that he thinks it's unfair that blacks get incarcerated at 5 times the rate of whites.

Well. I think it's unfair that blacks commit five times as many crimes as whites.

I think a good start toward balancing the incarceration rate would be to put his sorry butt behind bars.

As usual, the solution to problems brought to us by socialism is more socialism. This crap didn't begin without design...thank LBJ's "Great Society." Urban blacks have been trapped by the welfare state for multiple generations with support for fatherless illegitimate offspring, receiving just enough to sustain life...much like animals in a zoo. Then we're supposed to be surprised when they act like animals.

Their solution is to trap ALL of society in the same system. We'll all be in the same predicament by the time they're through.

Originally Posted by hatari

Originally Posted by IndyCA35

He writes that he thinks it's unfair that blacks get incarcerated at 5 times the rate of whites.

Well. I think it's unfair that blacks commit five times as many crimes as whites.

My standard reply to to Libs that give me that first line is "Why is it so difficult to control your impulses and obey the law? Obey the law and you don't go to prison."

I once heard it put this way........Blacks are like an animal, they don't think, they react. They are impulsive, and do things out of instinct rather than out of thought.

Soros knows exactly what he’s saying and who will welcome his words. More motivational pep talk is all it is. Keep the fire burning.

Originally Posted by shootem

Soros knows exactly what he’s saying and who will welcome his words. More motivational pep talk is all it is. Keep the fire burning.

Yep.
Money in and of itself has its own disciples and followers no matter what the cause may be.

How is a foreign national allowed to interfere with US elections to advance his political agenda in the US? Seems like that would be cause for arrest and prosecution.

Originally Posted by Valsdad

Thanks skeen.

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In fact, violent crime in recent years has generally been increasing more quickly in jurisdictions without reform-minded prosecutors. Murder rates have been rising fastest in some Republican states led by tough-on-crime politicians.

Now, which States and do those states (FL? TX? OK?) have large metro areas (Miami? Houston? DFW? Tulsa?) that are driving those "fastest rising" murder rates George? Please, do tell us?

Unfortunately, so many Americans, of both political persuasions have no clue what critical thinking is and take blanket statements as the truth.

He's employing the fallacy of causality. B follows A therefore A must have caused B. A lot deeper analysis is needed here but as you note, folks just take blanket statements as truth.

Originally Posted by RiverRider

As usual, the solution to problems brought to us by socialism is more socialism. This crap didn't begin without design...thank LBJ's "Great Society." Urban blacks have been trapped by the welfare state for multiple generations with support for fatherless illegitimate offspring, receiving just enough to sustain life...much like animals in a zoo. Then we're supposed to be surprised when they act like animals.

As much as folks love to hate those nee-gros, this is a huge part of it. Generations of young men and women raised without two parents, single women popping out kids solely to get a raise in the welfare check and then those kids are left to turn completely feral. Couple that with a constant bombardment of the message that "you are victims, your sorry life is all someone else's fault so you don't need to change your behavior one bit, they do" and you have a perfect storm for a totally failed subset of society.

I agree with Soros. Our criminal justice system needs some serious revamping. Particularly to insure nobody is above the law, regardless of income or social status. We need to insure the rich and political elite, those people who make the laws, have to abide by them the same as everybody else and when they don't, the punishments need to be just as sure and severe. Until then our criminal justice system is nothing but a sad joke.

[quote=Blackheart]I agree with Soros. Our criminal justice system needs some serious revamping. Particularly to insure nobody is above the law, regardless of income or social status. We need to insure the rich and political elite, those people who make the laws, have to abide by them the same as everybody else and when they don't, the punishments need to be just as sure and severe. Until then our criminal justice system is nothing but a sad joke.[/quote

“Justice” now days comes down to just how much of it can you afford. Been that way for a long while now.

Throw the Money Changers out of the Temple..

Roll Them or They Roll You

Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye

How is a foreign national allowed to interfere with US elections to advance his political agenda in the US? Seems like that would be cause for arrest and prosecution.

According to some reports, and I have no idea how correct they are, he is a Naturalized Citizen as of 1961

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Soros was naturalized as an American citizen on December 18, 1961.[6][7]

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6. Greenwald, Glenn (October 20, 2010). "George Soros' 'foreign' money". Salon. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 15, 2015.

7.Weiss, Gary; Schares, Gail E.; Smith, Geri; Dwyer, Paul; Sandler, Neal; Pennar, Karen (August 22, 1993). "The Man Who Moves Markets". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 15, 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#Personal_life

Do I trust wikipedia? Not always.

do I trust either of the two sources quoted?. Not always.

I'm not privy to .gov records though, so maybe he's not a Citizen?

Originally Posted by Houston_2

[quote=Blackheart]I agree with Soros. Our criminal justice system needs some serious revamping. Particularly to insure nobody is above the law, regardless of income or social status. We need to insure the rich and political elite, those people who make the laws, have to abide by them the same as everybody else and when they don't, the punishments need to be just as sure and severe. Until then our criminal justice system is nothing but a sad joke.[/quote

“Justice” now days comes down to just how much of it can you afford. Been that way for a long while now.

I personally find it difficult to call for stricter punishments for the peasants, of which I am one, when the likes of Hunter Biden and his pedophilic sire are not behind bars.

Originally Posted by Blackheart

Originally Posted by Houston_2

[quote=Blackheart]I agree with Soros. Our criminal justice system needs some serious revamping. Particularly to insure nobody is above the law, regardless of income or social status. We need to insure the rich and political elite, those people who make the laws, have to abide by them the same as everybody else and when they don't, the punishments need to be just as sure and severe. Until then our criminal justice system is nothing but a sad joke.[/quote

“Justice” now days comes down to just how much of it can you afford. Been that way for a long while now.

I personally find it difficult to call for stricter punishments for the peasants, of which I am one, when the likes of Hunter Biden and his pedophilic sire are not behind bars.

With no Justice for ALL, we have no Republic.

That’s where we are at this point in time.